Five students are invited to a murder mystery scholarship dinner and quickly find that they each have something to hide from an event that took place exactly one year ago.
Monthly Archives: August 2020
The Orphan Collector
Pia, a young immigrant living in Philadelphia, fights to keep her young twin brothers alive after their mother passes from the Spanish flu, but after falling ill herself is sent to an orphanage. For years she clings to hope that she will find her brothers alive while struggling to forge a path in a city that want to forget her.
The Night Swim
Rachel is trying something new with her incredibly successful podcast – following an active rape cast as it unfolds. While in the small town, though, she gets wrapped up in a mystery from the past that has unexpected links to the present.
Now and When
When Skyler’s prom venue is threatened by a company wanting to bulldoze the garden, she must team up with her rival – Truman – to fight for it. How can she work with someone she can’t stand? Especially when she begins getting cell phone updates from a future reunion site that shows Truman and Skyler together.
A Most Beautiful Thing
Growing up on Chicago’s westside made life difficult in many ways, but when Arshay Cooper joins a new team at school – the crew team – he becomes part of America’s first all-Black high school rowing team and learns lessons that will guide him through life.
Hostile Territory
Four teens find themselves stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a devastating earthquake and have to trek to civilization only to discover that life as they knew it doesn’t exist anymore. Can they help save Alaska?
Book Gems 